Volunteers Needed to Gather Signatures for the Hold El Dorado Accountable Initiative!
We’ve launched a ballot initiative to hold El Dorado County accountable to the voters. This measure reinstates the will of the voters and protects taxpayers by prohibiting elected officials, county executives, and administrative officials from enriching themselves by misusing the Deputy Sheriff's wage standards, costing taxpayers millions of dollars in future expenditures.
Hundreds of volunteers are needed to gather the 13,000 signatures necessary to place this exciting and important initiative on the November 2026 ballot.
To join our team, please complete the form and we’ll mail you petitions when we kick off our signature drive in March!
In addition to gathering signatures from friends and family, please consider covering a signature gathering shift at a public location like:
churches
farmers markets
grocery stores
baseball games
parks
Eighty percent of our signatures will come from this type of signature gathering.
If you are interested, please check the appropriate box. We’ll give you all the materials, training, and company you’ll need for a positive and productive experience. Thanks for your help!
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A big thanks to all who showed up at yesterday’s rally! Make sure to visit our photo album by clicking the button below.
Who We Are
We are a coalition of concerned residents, business owners, community leaders, and government workers – taxpayers just like you – who see El Dorado County heading in the wrong direction. Now we are taking action to do something about it.
We are standing up to preserve our County’s truly special quality of life, and calling out elected officials who seem more interested in cutting behind-the-scenes deals that benefit the few than building a community where we can all live and thrive.
We are your neighbors. We shop at the same stores, eat at the same restaurants, and send our children to the same schools. We live in El Dorado County for the same reasons you do: we love our community.
We want an El Dorado County where our streets are plowed in winter, our trails are cleared in summer, our emergency calls are answered, and our treasured Jeepers Jamboree goes off without a hitch.
We’re Fighting for Accountability
When it comes to our local Board of Supervisors, we all want the same thing: elected officials we can trust, hold accountable, and believe are committed to transparency, fairness, and safety.
Right now, that bond of trust has been broken.
We need to stop the automatic pay raises this Board has rubber-stamped for an elite few insiders. Thirty years ago El Dorado County taxpayers overwhelmingly approved an amendment to Charter Section 504, which provided for automatic pay increases ONLY for sworn peace officers — NOT non-sworn peace officer employees. Unfortunately, this Board didn’t get the message — or they chose to ignore it — and went ahead and spent public dollars to give pay raises to a privileged few. Either way, this Board is defying the will of the people who elected them. We must hold them accountable with this initiative.
Our Supervisors are putting themselves and the special interests of a select few above the community instead of allocating our tax dollars to fund the critical services we need.
We’re fighting so the people who work in El Dorado can afford to live in the community they serve. When that happens, everybody wins. Right now, skilled and experienced workers are leaving El Dorado County in record numbers for better-paying jobs in surrounding counties. That’s forcing us to constantly hire and re-hire, train and retrain, and certify and re-certify new teams only to know that they will likely follow their predecessors out the door.